Georgios Kosmas

Georgios Kosmas (1884-1964) was a Lieutenant-General of the Greek Army during the Greco-Italian War and World War II.

Biography
Georgios Kosmas was born in 1884 in Falanthi, Messenia, Greece. Kosmas served in the Greek Army during the Balkan Wars, on the Macedonian front of World War I, and on the Asia Minor front against Turkey, and he was advanced to Colonel in 1925 and to Major-General in 1934. In 1940, he reached his final rank of Lieutenant-General, and he commanded two corps of the army during the Greco-Italian War in 1940-1941. After Nazi Germany invaded and occupied Greece, Kosmas fought for the EDES rebels, and he was captured and imprisoned at the Dachau concentration camp in Tyrol until April 1945. After the war, he served as governor of Western Thrace and then Minister for Northern Greece, and he died in 1964.